Many people have taken to going overseas to receive alternative “stem cell” treatments, some of which have not been approved in the U.S. Anecdotes abound in which patients are cured of diseases that defy conventional medicine by these treatments. But the field also has numerous patients who have not recovered—or whose deaths followed expensive procedures.

Poll Question:
How likely are you to go to a foreign country to get a medical procedure involving stem cells done?

Not likely
160

Somewhat likely
37

Very likely
65

I already have
15

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